The Washington Post Refuses to Let Facts or Logic Get in the Way of Its Agenda on Trade

The Washington Post has long used both its opinion pages and news section to advance its agenda on trade. It is famous for inventing a GDP boom in Mexico to push the case for NAFTA. More  than a decade ago it ran an editorial claiming that Mexico's GDP quadrupled between 1987 and 2007, which it attributed to NAFTA.

The actual number was 84.2 percent, according to the I.M.F. In spite of this gross error, the paper has never run a correction.

Given the Post's history on trade, it was not s...